Writing

Liz's first play Things That Might Become (developed with funding from ACE and in partnership with Trinity Laban and Jerwood Space) has recently been longlisted for the Verity Bargate Award. A recipient of Arts Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice grant in 2025/6 to expand her writing practice, Liz is currently writing a short film, Scooter, a feature film Glass, exploring the fragility and importance of young female friendship and a collection of poems about the early years of motherhood.

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Essays

My Fair Share of Happiness

Happy New Year Reader. A time of resolutions, promises, wishes, and so, I thought, the perfect moment to share some thoughts on...

Jan 9, 20206 min read

Truth and Telling Stories

What is our responsibility to represent truth on stage? As a person who makes theatre- dare I group us? Yes, I do- as people who make...

Aug 22, 20196 min read

Grief, Two and a bit years on.

For reasons that I don’t totally understand, I went to university and never wrote a dissertation. I did a practical module at a local...

Jan 18, 201919 min read

Women, Woman, and Woe-man

Women. Men. Humans. I am herewith self-publishing my answers to an interview that didn’t make the cut. But never fear, it might not be...

Aug 23, 20183 min read

1972: The Future of Sex

I’m currently working on a rather delightful play, ‘1972: The Future of Sex’, originally by The Wardrobe Ensemble (a really interesting...

Jun 17, 20184 min read

Some thoughts on performance and Audience

I’ve written previously about process vs performance, specifically in relation to creating work with ‘community’ groups and in...

Dec 9, 20175 min read

The role of the Director

I run theatre workshops for primary school groups, exploring arts and creativity. At the beginning I’ll introduce myself as a theatre...

Feb 28, 20174 min read

Grief

I have tried, and failed, to write this blog post five times. In fact, this is the scariest thing I have ever written. I want to write...

Dec 21, 20164 min read

Things as they are

I wrote a blog post a while ago about how audiences respond to theatre; about how every one of us is an expert at deciding whether a...

Sep 21, 20163 min read

What’s going on in there? Or: the longest blog post I’ve ever written

We’re into the second week of rehearsals for Anything Other’s first show, All of Me. I’ve been thinking (my mother: “always dangerous”):...

Aug 2, 20167 min read

About uncertainty (and Theatre)

I’ve heard the word ‘uncertain’ repeated over and over in the news this week. With the EU referendum on Thursday, the killing of MP Jo...

Jun 20, 20162 min read

Why make theatre?

It feels like a question which should be pretty straightforward and simple to answer, but it requires some thought. A lot of it actually....

Apr 16, 20163 min read

A long drive with Fear and Creativity

Well, it’s been a while… I could fall back on ‘not enough time in the day’, or ‘got stuff going down’ (the latter, if I were American, or...

Jan 29, 20163 min read

Script club: an insight into our research and development phase.

Script Club is a project which sees writers going back into the communities in which they grew up to write a new play with, and for, that...

Jan 18, 20152 min read

Process vs. product (hearts vs. turds)

In the world of community arts there exists a heated debate around process and product and which is the more important. Until recently I...

May 28, 20142 min read

Why you know best

“Oh well, you know better than me, but I thought…” is a response that I often get when I’ve just asked someone what they thought of a...

Jan 31, 20142 min read

Creative Sharing

At the beginning of my career and in my first job with a large commercial west-end theatre company, I recall being surprised and inspired...

Nov 15, 20132 min read

Facilitating Lee Harvey Oswald

It’s been a big week for team Lee Harvey Oswald– we’ve now worked our way through Part 1 and Part 2 is well on its way. Gemma and Adam...

Oct 21, 20132 min read

Solving the case of Lee Harvey Oswald

Lee Harvey Oswald by Michael Hastings explores the lives of Lee Harvey Oswald (played by Adam Gillen), his Russian wife Marina (Gemma...

Oct 15, 20132 min read

Creating a church through the arts- no religious belief required.

I’m currently working on a music project, specifically, a singing project, Snapshot Songs. Run by Barbican/Guildhall Creative Learning...

Sep 26, 20133 min read